Device for tying and untying packages.



D. G. GALBRAITH.

DEVICE FOR TYING AND UNTYING PACKAGES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT.1,1908.

1,95%, 1G1 Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

flaw-y W I provide a device BRAITE, OE MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR T NANNIE 'L.

' GPaLBBAIlH, G1? MINERAL 'WELLS, TEKEQS.

DEVICE FOB. 'IYIHG AND UNTYL'IQ'G EACKAGES.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25,1913.

Application filed October 1, 1908. Serial No. 455,703.

2'5 may ncern DAVID G. Gnnnnnrrn, the county of Palo 1 have invented a cerul improvementin De "ing and Untying Packages; and by declare the following to be and exact description or" the ee being had to the accompanyharming a part of this specification, o the figures and letters of ref eren c marked thereon.

This invention relates to devices for facilitating the application and removal of confining cords to pee 'ages, the objects of the invention being to providea simple device with which trite cord may be easily and quickly secured or released without undue wear on the cord.

is further object of the invention is to which may be used to secure the card when passed either around the package in onedirect-ion or iutwo directions all as will iy'areinatte appear.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package with a confining cord thereon held by a device embodying the present improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan view or" a package with the confining cord passed around the same in one direction and held by a securing device embodying the present invention.

The securing device of the present invention bent up from single piece of wire tle two ends being of similar conformation but reversed with relation to each other while the central part of the wire forms a hook in which a night of the cord drawn taut before being secured.

As shown in the drawings the wire is bent rather sharply at the center A to form a hook recess 0. Each arm is bent back on itself asat. g to form cord pinching and holding slots b and finally the ends are bent outwardly and turned back into proximity to the extremities of the cord holding slots, thereby forming guides and handles 11. The handles 0? diverge from the parts 2', i, of the arms a sufficient distance from the bend A to form converging guides for the cord which latterwill be directed into the hold ing slots without the necessity of accurate placing by the person'tying the package:

Inmaking use of the securing dQ\ lCL. one

. end of the cord is drawn into one of the in the drawings.

securing slots 7) where it will be firmly held. The thumb or finger is then placed on the handle adjacent the slot in which the end of the string is secured and the string passed around the package, hooked into the bend A. and drawn taut with a pulley action. The cord is next passed around the package the other way and the end drawn tightly into the other holding slot as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing the cord is passed around the package in one direction only but a doubled loop of. cord is used. To apply the cord in this use of the device, one end of the cord is secured and the cord passed around the package as before and drawn tight, then the free' end is brought back in the same direction and secured in the other slotof the fastener. If desired to lock the cord with greater security the free ends may be doubled back and drawn down into the slots as shown in Fig. 2, when .it will be found that the slight enlargement due to the bending of the cord shown at J will afford greatly increased resistance to any slipping of the cord.

Obviously the handle and guide portions of the fastener may be of any desired shape. round and angular forms being illustrated The arms for-1n an acute anglethus each arm will form the end of a hook of which the other arm is the shank and the cord may be drawn tight without liability of slipping oil no matter Whether the tie be used right or lefthanded. a

Nhat'l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A securing dcvice for package confining cords embodying a single lengtho-f wire having a central bend for a bight of the cord, the ends of the wire diverging at an acute angle whereby either will form the end of a hook and the other the shank, each end being bent back 'on itself to form a cord pinching and holding slot. and beyond said slot diverging from the body of the wire to form guides for the cord the extremities of both ends being brought into proximity to the ends of the slots to form oppositely extending handles by which the device may be held in fastening a package,' the said slots for the ends of the cord being arranged to lie in substantially the same plum. \vlnri'chy the cnds of thc curd will hath he held. in a plane parallel with the. surface of the package.

2. A securing device for package c0nfining cords cinhedying a single length of Wire having :3 centrnl bend forming n hook for n hight 0f the c0rd,nrms diverging at an ncntc angle from said bend, the said arms being doubled hack on themselves to form cord pinching and holding slots and thence extending in opposite directions intermediate the slots and central bend to form With the inncr ends of the arms diverging guides for the cord and the extremities being bent into proximity to the ends of the slots tn 2;, form oppositely extending handles by which the device may be held during the npplicwtion of the cord to the package, the said slots for the ends 01:" the cord being arranged to lie in substantially the samc plane whereby 20 the ends of the cord will both be held in a plane pm'allcl with the surface oi. the pacl:

DAVID G: GALBRAITH. Witnesses:

Mir/min PELT, Bnn'r Gmsox. 

